Afshin MEHRPOUYA

Associate Professor

Accounting and Management Control

Biography

Afshin Mehrpouya is an associate professor of accounting and management control systems at HEC Paris. Trained as a medical doctor in Iran, Afshin also holds an MBA and PhD in management. His research is broadly in role of performance measurement in transnational governance. He currently studies the construction and use of different calculative knowledge forms such as rankings and ratings in transnational governance regimes. He is a member of the editorial board of Accounting, Organizations and Society. Prior to starting his academic career Afshin had years of experience in the design of environmental and social rankings and ratings. He has advised a range of development and sustainability related initiatives such as Access to Medicine Index, Aid Transparency Index, Medicines Transparency Alliance, Access to Nutrition Index and Responsible Mining Index.

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Scientific articles

Between regulatory field structuring and organizational roles: Intermediation in the field of Sustainable Urban Development

Regulation and Governance, Forthcoming,

Numbers in Regulatory Intermediation; Exploring the role of performance measurement between legitimacy and compliance

Regulation and Governance, Forthcoming,

Seeing like the market; exploring the mutual rise of transparency and accounting in transnational economic and market governance

Accounting, Organizations and Society, Forthcoming,

Making a Niche: The Marketization of Management Research and the Rise of “Knowledge Branding”

Awards & honors

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

2010Eurosif (European Sustainable Investments Forum) - Prize for research proposal - Marketization of ethics; does it work? Exploring the scenarios where firms social behavior is not reflected in its market performance